Intel core i5 760 or i7 870 which one.?

[Achilles1600]

Hi, i want to upgrade my cpu, but is it a big deal if i get the i7 870 over the i5 760.?

 

[CDdude55]

Only real difference is that you're losing HT with the i5, so that would really be the deciding factor on whether or not you should spend the extra money for the 870.

 

[sneekypeet]

you are also buying a much better IMC on the 870 over the 760...if it matters.

 

[leemerlord]

IMC? what is that?

 

[sneekypeet]

Internal memory controller. With this i5 and i7 they dont use a northbridge to controll the ram, its all done on the CPU.

 

[leemerlord]

Internal memory controller. With this i5 and i7 they dont use a northbridge to controll the ram, its all done on the CPU.

oh ok, thanks for answering

 

[leemerlord]

Hi, i want to upgrade my cpu, but is it a big deal if i get the i7 870 over the i5 760.?

i went from an i3 530 to the i5 760 and i noticed a huge preformance increase i only game, listen to music and watch movies rarely so i thought the 760 would be good enough for me

 

[Fourstaff]

If the only thing you do most of the time is gaming, I think the 760 would be a good choice because you wouldn't use the extra threads that often anyway.

 

[leemerlord]

If the only thing you do most of the time is gaming, I think the 760 would be a good choice because you wouldn't use the extra threads that often anyway.

exactly what i thought

 

[Dent1]

Hi, i want to upgrade my cpu, but is it a big deal if i get the i7 870 over the i5 760.?

Its amazing, I must of criticised the i3 in general for being dual core and weaker than AMD alternatives a few days back, and straight away you are thinking of upgrading it! if you are happy with the i3 keep it, you have a good processor you really do

 

[gumpty]

I went through exactly the same question last week. In the end I went with the 760 as I rarely need lots of multi-threaded madness. As others have said, if you're gaming you will benefit going from 2 to 4 cores but the hyper-threading on top of that generally doesn't do anything for FPS.

Get the 760 and spend the extra £75 on beer. Or a newer GPU. Sell your 4850 and use that + £75 to pay for a HD6850 or GTX460.

 

[Hayder_Master]

for me i see go with i7 860, maybe u don't use extra threads now but maybe later CPU's now going with more cores so maybe programs and games maybe use it in the future, just like crysis 2 i see news say it's optimized for 8 cores.
other thing stay what u have now for the sandy bridge, that's is my way to think for cuz u going to pay something ready for everything for next two yeas, so if u don't want to change the mother board go with i7 and i prefer the i7 870 cuz it's drop in price now or wait for sandy bridge.

 

[genta3d]

If I may say, I think your PC have good balance. If you just upgrade CPU, in my opinion its not efficient. But if you really need one, I think your GPU still matched a 760. Furthermore if you have extramoney try to sold that P55 and go to i7 950

 

[wolf]

i5 760 is ample IMO, save the extra $$$ towards a new midrange GPU in the next 3-6 months.

 

[ERazer]

imo, i would go with 870, u never know when need the xtra kick later on, hell last nite with my 860 i was playing EVE online (mining), watching movie, and running wcg 100% cpu usage w/o issue, plenty of power


Edit: but lets be honest, p55 is a dead socket either wait and upgrade to new upcoming socket or get at least semi future prof it, 2 cents

 

[[Ion]]

I'd say go for the i5, I've experimented around w/ disabling HT on my i7 860 to turn it into (basically) an i5 760, and basically nothing changes. WCG is slower, and encoding (which I rarely do) sees a hit, but for gaming and general day-to-day use, I'd say go for an i5 and a better GPU

 

[Wrigleyvillain]

Yeah it's not just HT; the IMC on the i7 is better. And in a very specific way-it allows the RAM to run at a 12x multi instead of topping out at 10. So you could run DDR3-2200 at 184 BCLK instead of 220, for example.

I actually found this out the hard way tbh after i bought my 760 and now have some nice, fast RAM so I want to upgrade my CPU. So, yeah, unless you want to fairly easily run RAM higher than 2000 and/or will utilize HT you are just fine with the less expensive i5. In fact, you can buy mine!

 

[Achilles1600]

Thank's guy's, i think ill just get the i7 870 for (HT), it will help me in the future for game's like crysis 2. iv got the money to get the 870 the corsair HX 850 psu 8GB of corsair xms 3, and a new gpu im looking to get the 6970, when it drop's.

thank you so much guy's

 

[JrRacinFan]

How long do you plan on having this rig for before upgrading again?

 

[Achilles1600]

2 to 3 year's, why.?

 

[JrRacinFan]

Was just thinking 2yrs + go with the i7.

 

[Achilles1600]

Yeah me to, thnx.